Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-10
THE NATION.

treasury have increased s600OOoO since
May /.
The demand for notes OF small denomi.
nations continue heavy and far exceeds
the supply
President and Mrs. Cleveland spent the
first anniversary Of their wedding picnic
ing in the woods.
Prof Sumner Of Yale college has been
appointed a member of the board of visi
tors to the naval academy.
Col. J. b. Andrews OF Pittsburg, will
succeed Caut. Eads in charge of the Te-
hauntepec ship raj way scheme.
President Cleve and is planning an ex-
tensive western trip. August and Sep
TENDER are 10 be spent in the contemplated
trip
The Connecticut railroad commissioners
have issued their edict forbiddi ne the sun
day morning newspaper train in that
state
\ skif containing three coal miners
capsized in the Monongahela on the after
noon of Memorial day, and the men were
drowned.
A collision occurred on the Louisville q
! Nashville road, about four miles from Cal
! Ih' Ala, On the ISL inst, anu lOuT lives
were lost.
The Rev. Granville Moody, the famous
Ohio chaplain known as the Fighting Par
SON." ed at Mount Vernon, Iowa, on the
9TH inst, aged q years.
Much damage was done to property in
! Oberlin, Ohio by cloud burst the other
day. Three hundred feet of the Lake
Shore track was washed away.
Mollie Jackson, a white woman, was
convicted of vagrancy in the city court
at Paducah, Ky, and sentenced to be sold
TO the highest bidder for 30 days
\ national convention Of nail manufac
turers will likely Toe called at Pittsburg in
the near future for the purpose Of check
! ing the systematic cutting in prices.
The appropr alton for printing small
silver certificates is well nigh exhausted
and nothing can be done this year 10 meet
the large orders constantly coming in
Rev. DR.. Reed, who left Mansion, Cal
noun county. Iowa, last winter 10 become
a missionary in Central Africa, has been
killed aud eaten by a tribe of cannibals.
The business men of Austin, Texas have
offered 10 donate $4,000 and 70 acres o.
land toward establishing in that city d
home for veteran and INDECENT printers.
2Fred Whey of Detroit, first mate Of the
steamer Alaska, was crushed to death
under a crank shaft the other morning, n
few moments before the vessel made the
! Cleveland dock
reports from the Choctaw nation are 70
the effect that the trouble between the
ull bloods and hall-breeds is growing in
intensity and has in many cases terminal
ed in bloodshed.
Assistant Secretary Maynard has in
structed the collector at San Francisco to
prevent the landing OF foreign convicts at
that port. The collector of imm migration
at that port has received similar instruc-
tons.
Sherman Law, a wealthy young farmer
living near Petersburg, w. Va. quarreled
with his sweetheart, Lizzie Berg. He at
tempted to shoot her, but the ball struck
and killed her younger sister, Mary, who
was in the same room.
a statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that there was a net
decrease Of S4,4;1. 800 in the circulation
during the month of May, and net in
crease of sl0,930, $50 in the cash in the
treasury during the same period
The Rev Henry Van Rensselaer, Of the
historical Albany family of that name has
been converted from the Episcopal
to the Catholic faith and has been or
dained by Archbishop Corrigan as priest
He has become member of the society of
Jesus and will go among the Indians as a
missionary.
no tpa in ha l.
becoming serious. Half breeds are leaving
the nation in large numbers and crossing
into Arkansas for safety. Many Indians
are under arms Warning has been given
TO many families ordering their instant
departure from the Choctaw country. A
battle between the full bloods and the half
breeds is imminent.
1t is now estimated al the pension office
that the number Of Mexican pension claims
will not exceed 5000, 5000 Of which are
widows claims. Three thousand have al
ready been received and ., POO certificates
issued. II has been determined to increase
the force of the division having these cases
m charge so that they may be turned out
AT the rate OF 200 per diem.
The three Pinkerton men, Patrick
Sheehy. Morton Moriarty and Samuel a
NeT who were tried in the court Of ses.
sions in Jersey City, y. j., for killing the
l2-year-old boy Thomas Hogan on Jan. 20
last, have been acquitted. In charging the
Jury Judge Lippincott severely censured
the Delaware, Lackawanna q Western
railroad company for employing the Pink
erton's thereby exciting the people to
riot.
2Gen. Sheridan has appointed the follow
ing members of the Society Of the Army
of the Cumberland committee to take
charge of the project and collect funds for
a monument 10 Gen. VIM. H. Lytel OF
Ohio: Gen. Henry NJ Cist of Cincinnati,
chairman; Gen. j. s. Fullerton of St.
Louis; Gen. l.. +. Bradley, L. $. A.. Col.
y. II. Woodwork Of Chicago; Col. w. b.
McCreery of Flint, Mich. Gen Lytel was
on of the most distinguished officers Of
the Army o the Cumberland. He was
killed at Chickamauga while leading his
brigade in desperate charge
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